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The online attack that would wipe out the Internet for the whole of South Africa

18 May 2016, mybroadband.co.zaA distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack of 200Gbps-300Gbps aimed at targets in South Africa would be enough to wipe the country off the Internet. This is according to Vernon Fryer, group chief technology security officer at Vodacom, who was speaking about cyber warfare at t... read more

LocalBitcoins and Paxful Accessible Again After Potential DDoS Attacks

14 May 2016, themerkle.com, by JP BuntinxIt appears as if hackers are deliberately targeting bitcoin platforms all of a sudden, as both LocalBitcoins and Paxful were inaccessible due to potential DDoS attacks. Although these issues did not take long to sort themselves out, it raises the question as to why would be behin... read more

Pornhub is offering you up to $25K to hack its site and find flaws

10 May 2016, cnbc.com, by Arjun KharpalFinding security flaws probably is not the first thing you go to Pornhub for, but the adult video site is offering up to $25,000 for you to do just that. On Tuesday, Pornhub followed in the footsteps of some of the worlds biggest technology companies and publically launched its s... read more

08 May 2016, nextgov.com, by Aliya SternsteinAn adversary has spent months executing a cyberattack on an unnamed part of the nations critical infrastructure, after years of planning. Now, the disruption to daily American life is reaching its climax. First, there is a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack that masks... read more

After Bank of Greece, Cyprus Central Bank also reports cyber attack

05 May 2016, businessinsurance.comThe website of the Central Bank of Cyprus briefly came under cyber attack, days after a hacking collective said it conducted a similar attack on the Greek central bankâ€™s site. The central bank website came under some form of a denial-of-service attack, a spokeswoman said o... read more

Action Fraud warns of new wave of Lizard Squad DDoS attacks

02 May 2016, scmagazine.com, by Tim RingA number of UK businesses have been hit by extortion demands from the Lizard Squad hacker group, according to an alert issued by Action Fraud. At least 20 companies have been threatened, with victims told that if they do not pay five bitcoins â€“ just over Â£1,500 â€“... read more

Ghost Squad DDoS Black Lives Matter Website Because All Lives Matter

29 April 2016, hackread.com, by WaqasGhost Squad hacktivists have conducted a series of some powerful DDoS attacks on the official website of Black Lives Matter movement forcing it to go offline for the visitors. In the first phase of the attack which was conducted yesterday GS DDoSed the blacklivesmatter.com and read more

The DDoS attack that cried wolf

25 April 2016, theverge.com, by Russell BrandomLast week, the VPN service Cloak found a frightening message in its inbox: We are Armada Collective, the email read. We have launched the largest DDoS [distributed denial-of-service attack] in Swiss history and one of the largest DDoS attacks everâ€¦ All your servers will be ... read more

Anonymous DDoS attack on KKK shuts down website once again

22 April 2016, ibtimes.co.uk, by India AshokHacker group Ghost Squad, affiliated to the hacktivist collective Anonymous, launched a full scale DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on KKK (Ku Klux Klan), which effectively shut down the Klan official website. The Klan website was targeted in retaliation for the read more

Cyber threats come from all angles at the financial services industry

17 April 2016, csoonline.com, by Brian ContosAs data breaches target all sectors of society, cyber threats to financial institutions continue to garner especially close scrutiny due to the potential damages suffered by both the institution itself as well as its customers. According to a 2014 news article, the Federal Bureau... read more